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Gene-based therapies for a variety of inherited and acquired pulmonary diseases will require the development of vectors capable of safe and efficient transfer of DNA to the respiratory epithelium. The present study examined the feasibility of delivering DNA to respiratory epithelial cells by the receptor-mediated endocytosis pathway. This strategy employs molecular conjugates consisting of a cognate moiety, in this case human transferrin, covalently linked to a DNA-binding moiety, such as a cationic polyamine. Complexes were formed between transferrin-polylysine conjugates (hTfpL) and plasmid DNA carrying the firefly luciferase reporter gene (pRSVL). The conjugate-DNA complexes were added directly to cells in tissue culture and incubated for 24 h, after which cell lysates were analyzed for luciferase enzyme activity by luminometry. An immortalized human respiratory epithelial cell line (HBE1) treated with the transferrin-polylysine-DNA complexes exhibited luciferase enzyme activity significantly augmented over background levels. This respiratory epithelial cell line exhibited greater susceptibility to gene transfer by the transferrin-polylysine conjugates than did non-respiratory epithelial cell lines known to possess high levels of transferrin receptors. Effective gene transfer was shown to require both the DNA-binding moiety and cognate moiety for the cell surface receptor. Specific internalization of the conjugates by the transferrin pathway was verified by competition for the transferrin receptor. In addition, treatment with agents that either increased transferrin receptor number or decreased lysosomal degradation markedly augmented gene expression mediated by the conjugates. Thus, respiratory epithelial cells possess receptors for transferrin that can be exploited to accomplish gene transfer by the receptor-mediated endocytosis pathway.
Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 1992 Mar
PMID:Gene transfer to respiratory epithelial cells via the receptor-mediated endocytosis pathway. 154 Mar 89

The mechanism by which a clone of HL-60 human promyelocytic leukemia cells designated Tf-Gel-1 expresses reduced levels of the transferrin receptor (TfR) was investigated. Tf-Gel-1 was developed by continuous exposure of HL-60 cells to human iron-saturated transferrin covalently linked to the plant toxin gelonin (Tf-Gel); this variant was five- to sixfold more resistant to Tf-Gel than parental HL-60 cells. The amount of cell surface, as well as of solubilized, TfR and the cycling pools of TfR in Tf-Gel-1 cells, as measured by the binding of [125I]Tf, were all decreased to 20-30% of the levels present in parental cells. The growth of Tf-Gel-1 cells was independent of exogenous Fe3+ and was comparable to that of parental HL-60 cells. Despite the lower levels of TfRs, the Tf-Gel-1 clone retained the capacity to alter receptor expression, depending upon the phase of growth and the intracellular iron concentration, and to down-regulate TfRs in response to inducers of differentiation. Southern hybridization of cellular DNA with TfR cDNA did not reveal differences between parental and Tf-Gel-1 cells in the level and arrangement of the TfR gene. Basal and inducible (repressible) levels of TfR mRNA from Tf-Gel-1 cells, as measured by northern hybridization of cellular RNA with TfR cDNA, were comparable to those of parental cells. Metabolic labeling of cells with [35S]methionine, followed by immunoprecipitation of TfRs, demonstrated that the amount of radioactivity incorporated into TfRs in Tf-Gel-1 cells was reduced to a degree that approximated the decrease in [125I]Tf binding. Cell surface TfRs prepared from exponentially growing parental cells labeled with 125I by the solid-phase lactoperoxidase-glucose oxidase method existed as a doublet, with one form being phosphorylated and the other not phosphorylated. In contrast, Tf-Gel-1 cells not only contained diminished amounts of TfRs but also contained only the phosphorylated form of TfRs in the surface membrane. The decrease in the surface membrane concentration of the TfR in Tf-Gel-1 cells was specific for this glycoprotein, since the levels of other cell surface antigens, such as CD13, CD15 and CD45, were normal in Tf-Gel-1 cells. A reduction in the incorporation of [3H]mannose into the acid-insoluble fraction of cells and an increase in sensitivity to ricin suggested that Tf-Gel-1 cells possessed an aberration in carbohydrate metabolism.
Somat Cell Mol Genet 1992 Jan
PMID:Characterization of the defect in a variant of HL-60 promyelocytic leukemia cells with reduced transferrin receptor expression. 154 69

Androgen-regulated mesenchymal-epithelial interactions play an important role during embryonic development of the male urogenital tractus. Studies on the effects of androgens on cultured testicular cells derived from the immature rat testis indicate that, even during postnatal life, similar interactions may be instrumental for normal androgen action. Androgen receptors are found in epithelial Sertoli cells as well as in mesenchymal peritubular cells. The effects of androgens on isolated Sertoli cells, however, are limited. Coculture with peritubular cells increases the sensitivity and/or the responsiveness of a number of Sertoli cell parameters (transferrin, ABP, aromatase activity) to androgens. This effect is at least in part mediated by the secretion of one or more diffusible factors (P-Mod-S) by the peritubular cells. We investigated whether such indirect effects of androgens, relying on mesenchymal-epithelial interactions are also observed in other androgen target tissues. To this end stromal cells were isolated and cultured from the immature rat ventral prostate and the production of factors with P-Mod-S activity was monitored using Sertoli cells as the test system. Under coculture conditions these stromal cells stimulate Sertoli cell transferrin secretion in an androgen-regulated fashion, exactly as peritubular cells. This stimulatory effect is related in part to the collaborative (and androgen-independent) deposition of an extracellular matrix and in part to the secretion of an androgen-regulated diffusible mediator. This mediator has the same physicochemical characteristics as P-Mod-S and it affects other Sertoli cell parameters (ABP, aromatase activity, inhibin, cGMP) in the same way as P-Mod-S. Cultured stromal and peritubular cells look very similar and stain positive after immunostaining for alpha-smooth muscle isoactin. Tissue sections suggest that these cells may be derived from myoid peritubular cells in the testis and similar periacinar cells in the prostate. The hypothesis is advanced that P-Mod-S may be a more universal mediator of indirect effects of androgens in diverse target tissues and that this factor is derived from myoid cells closely associated with the epithelial component.
J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 1992 Mar
PMID:The role of cell-cell interactions in androgen action. 156 20

X-ray solution scattering has been used for studying the structural changes that take place upon uptake and release of iron from serum and chicken ovo-transferrin and human lactoferrin. In the case of chicken ovo-transferrin, data have been obtained for both the intact protein and the isolated N and C-lobes with and without iron. These studies reveal that both lobes undergo a change that is consistent with an opening of the inter-domain cleft when iron is removed from the protein. We suggest that the conformational change of the protein increases the specificity of receptor binding and that the closed configuration of the iron-loaded protein is one, or perhaps the, decisive step in the mechanism for receptor-mediated endocytosis.
J Mol Biol 1992 Jun 05
PMID:X-ray solution scattering reveals conformational changes upon iron uptake in lactoferrin, serum and ovo-transferrins. 160 83

A comparison of Cu K-edge x.a.f.s. spectra with that of the equivalent Fe K-edge for chicken ovotransferrin (COT) indicates that the metal ions occupy essentially the same binding sites in the protein. However, in the case of the Cu2+ complex the metal appears to have reduced co-ordination. Changes are observed in the x.a.f.s. of 90%-saturated COT (Cu1.8COT) on freeze-drying. The three-dimensional X-ray structures of rabbit serum transferrin and human lactoferrin have shown that the ferric cations are co-ordinated by four protein ligands and a bidentate carbonate anion in a distorted octahedral arrangement [Anderson, Baker, Dodson, Norris, Rumball, Waters & Baker (1987) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 84, 1768-1774; Anderson, Baker, Norris, Rice and Baker (1989) J. Mol. Biol. 209, 711-734; Bailey, Evans, Garratt, Gorinsky, Hasnain, Horsburgh, Jhoti, Lindley, Mydin, Sarra & Watson (1988) Biochemistry 27, 5804-5812]. This structural information, together with the differences in e.x.a.f.s. spectra for solution and freeze-dried samples of diferric COT [Hasnain, Evans, Garratt & Lindley (1987) Biochem. J. 247, 369-375] suggests that the synergistic carbonate anion may be capable of behaving as a unidentate linkage to the Cu2+ in the dicupric complex. Data for Cu1.8COT are consistent with only three protein ligands bound to Cu2+, monodentate binding of the synergistic anion in one lobe and its bidentate binding in the other lobe. Such flexibility in the anion co-ordination may be a requirement for the uptake and release of metals by the transferrins.
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PMID:X.a.f.s. studies of chicken dicupric ovotransferrin. 166 Feb 64

Arthritis was induced by injecting cationic amidated bovine serum albumin (aBSA) (pI approximately 9.2) into the knee joint of immunized guinea pigs and the mechanisms of articular cartilage destruction were studied morphologically and biochemically. Marked synovitis associated with polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PML) infiltration occurred within 1 day of the challenge. Articular cartilage infiltrated by PMLs was almost completely destroyed after 2 weeks. During the initial destructive process, proteoglycans were depleted from the cartilage and later collagen fibers disappeared. Granulation tissue growing in the inflamed synovium and bone marrow replaced the destroyed cartilage and joint cavity and formed fibrous scar tissue (fibrous ankylosis) by 8 weeks. Subsequently, the knee joints developed cartilagenous ankylosis by 12 weeks and finally bony ankylosis at 28 weeks. Autoradiography using 125I-aBSA and immunofluorescence studies for immunoglobulin (IgG) and complement (C3) demonstrated that the antigen is trapped in all zones of the articular cartilage and serves as a trigger for immune complex formation. Significantly increased neutral proteinase activities against substrates of proteoglycan subunits, [3H]carboxymethylated transferrin and L-pyroglutamyl-L-prolyl-L-valine-paranitroanilide were detected in homogenates of the synovium and cartilage from arthritic knee joints 1 and 2 weeks after induction. Inhibitor studies and pH curves suggested that the proteinase is leukocyte elastase. Measurable amounts of gelatinolytic activity, detected by activation with 4-aminophenylmercuric acetate and inhibited with EDTA, were also present in the same samples, but there was no detectable collagenase activity. The data on SDS-gelatin substrate gel showed that the proteinase is gelatinase derived from PMLs. These results suggest that in aBSA-induced arthritis, elastase and gelatinase from PMLs invading articular cartilage may play important roles in cartilage destruction.
Virchows Arch B Cell Pathol Incl Mol Pathol 1991
PMID:Arthritis induced immunologically with cationic amidated bovine serum albumin in the guinea pig. A morphological and biochemical study on the destruction of articular cartilage. 167 78

Deglycosylation of gonadotropins and thyrotropin results in a major loss of hormonal bioactivity, while not impairing receptor-binding activity. However, a direct role of the glycan moieties in hormonal signal transduction has not been demonstrated. The addition of carbohydrate chains together with the deglycosylated hormone does not restore the hormonal activity. In contrast, glycopeptides were found to inhibit human choriogonadotropin (hCG)-stimulated adenylyl cyclase activity and hCG binding to its receptor. An inhibition of hCG-stimulated adenylyl cyclase activity but not hCG binding to receptor by glycopeptides specifically from hCG, has previously been reported as a lectin-like membrane component has been implicated in hCG action. In the present study we have shown that glycopeptides and oligosaccharides prepared from hCG, transferrin, fetuin, alpha 1-acid glycoprotein and ovalbumin inhibit the binding of hCG to its receptor. The inhibition was also observed with a highly purified preparation of the receptor, thus suggesting a lack of involvement of other lectin-like membrane components as previously proposed. We suggest that a lectin-like interaction with the hormone, if any, involves the receptor itself. Adenylyl cyclase activity stimulated by hCG, isoproterenol or forskolin was inhibited by oligosaccharides, indicating a non-specific interaction. Our results suggest that Asn-linked oligosaccharide chains from various glycoproteins perturb hCG-receptor interactions through a putative carbohydrate binding site on the receptor.
Mol Cell Endocrinol 1990 May 07
PMID:The role of carbohydrate in human choriogonadotropin (hCG) action. Effects of N-linked carbohydrate chains from hCG and other glycoproteins on hormonal activity. 169 6

Antigenic determinants of the human transferrin molecule on the sublobe and lobe levels were localized for 7 monoclonal antibodies. Antibodies used have different effects on the interaction of the transferrin with its receptor. It was concluded that transferrin-receptor recognition was determined by NH2-lobe, the N2-sublobe playing major part. Dimerization of the transferrin molecules in solution was detected. Using the panel of monoclonal antibodies it was shown that dimerization accomplished by means of the COOH-lobes of transferrin molecules, the sites of interaction of the NH2-lobe with receptor being exposed. A model of the transferrin - receptor complex is proposed.
Mol Biol (Mosk)
PMID:[Localization of the site of human transferrin interacting with cellular receptors using monoclonal antibodies]. 171 35

The extracellularly secreted endopeptidase elastase (LasB) is regarded as an important virulence factor of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. It has also been implicated in the processing of LasA which enhances elastolytic activity of LasB. In order to investigate the role of LasB in virulence and LasA processing, a LasB-negative mutant, PAO1E, was constructed by insertional mutagenesis of the LasB structural gene, lasB, in P. aeruginosa PAO. An internal 636 bp lasB fragment of the plasmid pRB1803 was ligated into a derivative of the mobilization vector pSUP201-1. The resulting plasmid, pBRMOB-LasB, was transformed into Escherichia coli and transferred by filter matings to the LasB-positive P. aeruginosa strain, PAO1. Plasmid integration in the lasB site of the chromosome was confirmed by Southern blot analysis. Radioimmunoassay and immunoblotting of PAO1E supernatant fluids yielded no detectable LasB (less than 1 ng ml-1 LasB). The absence of LasB in PAO1E was further proven by the inability of its culture supernatant fluid to cleave transferrin or rabbit immunoglobulin G (IgG) after a 72 h incubation. The residual proteolytic activity of PAO1E culture supernatant fluid was attributed to alkaline proteinase (Apr), since it was totally inhibited by specific antibodies against Apr. Residual elastolytic activity in culture supernatant fluid of PAO1E was due to the LasA fragment and to the combined action of the LasA fragment with Apr on elastin. The sizes of purified LasA from PAO1 and PAO1E were identical (22 kDa). These results show that, besides LasB and the LasA fragment, Apr may also act on elastin in the presence of the LasA fragment and that the proteolytic processing of LasA in P. aeruginosa is independent of LasB.
Mol Microbiol 1991 Sep
PMID:Pseudomonas aeruginosa LasB mutant constructed by insertional mutagenesis reveals elastolytic activity due to alkaline proteinase and the LasA fragment. 176 84

It has been suggested that growth inhibition of cells by interferons may be mediated through interferon induced down-regulation of transferrin receptor expression. We describe a continuously growing cell line UWOV2 (pf) which expresses cell surface transferrin receptor but is able to grow in the absence of transferrin. This cell line is sensitive to the growth inhibitory effects of interferon alpha. Interferon alpha induced growth inhibition is not, however, accompanied by modulation of transferrin receptor expression suggesting that transferrin receptor modulation is not an essential component of the growth inhibitory effect of interferons.
Mol Biother 1991 Sep
PMID:Interferon (IFN) alpha inhibits cell proliferation of UWOV2 cells without down-regulation of transferrin receptors. 176 64


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